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RAF Birch in September 1944 - Related Files

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	Vrutky - railway depot during bombing on September 13, 1944. Military aid for the armed insurgent forces came from the American strategic Air Force on September 13, 1944. From September 10, 1944, they registered an increased movement of German transports at the Vrútky railway station. This increase in activity was due to the transferrence of soldiers and military material from the German 1008th and the 1009th Battalions for the support of the 178th Divis...		06/25/2007	286
	RAF Steeple Morden on 13 April 1947 RAF Steeple Morden is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 3½ miles W of Royston in Cambridgeshire. Between 1940 to September 1942, Steeple Morden was a grass satellite dispersal airfield used by No. 11 Squadron of RAF Bomber Command flying Vickers Wellingtons from RAF Bassingbourn. When the airfield was turned over for American use, St...		06/01/2008	401
	RAF Debden taken on 9 July 1946 RAF Debden is a former RAF airfield in England. The field is located 3 miles SE of Saffron Walden and approximately 1 mile north of the village of Debden in North Essex. The airfield was opened in April 1937 and was first used by the Royal Air Force. During the early years of World War II, it was a Sector Station with an Operations Block for No.11 Group RAF during the Battle of ...		06/06/2008	450
	Military Airport Chievres In 1939 the Belgian government decided to built a military airbase near Chièvres. The preparatory work starting at the end of the same year. After the German invasion of Belgium on May 10 1940, the Germans occupied the area on May 19 1940 and install the JG 26; that will remain until early June. In June 1940 started the construction of the buildings of the German airbase. ...		09/10/2009	41
	RAF Exeter taken on 20 May 1944 With the advent of World War II the landing area was increased to around 3,000 ft north to south and 4,500 ft east to west in the early months of the war. An asphalt perimeter track and several hardstands for aircraft parking followed and in 1941 hard-surfaced runways were put down. These were 4,350 ft aligned 13-31, 4,070 ft aligned 08-26 and 2,700 ft at 02-20. In 1942, the 08-...		06/01/2008	300
	RAF Wyton RAF Wyton is located North-West of St. Ives in Cambridgeshire, South-East of the A141 and West of the B1040. Unfortunately no longer the home of the Canberra, Wyton was reactivated after a period of care and maintenance in September 1999, to become the home of the Cambridge and University of London UAS's and also 5 AEF		12/19/2005	208
	Aerial Photo of RAF Hethel Airfield - 16 April 1946 RAF Hethel is a former World War II airfield used by the US during the Second World War (and briefly as an RAF station) in Norfolk, England situated located 7 miles south west of Norwich. Hethel airfield was constructd in 1942 for American use and was assigned USAAF designation Station 114. From 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945, Hethel served as headquarters for t...		11/04/2008	273
	Muenster bomb strike, 12 September 1944 119 Halifaxes of No 4 Group and 5 Pathfinder Lancasters carried out the first raid by RAF heavies on Münster since June 1943. 2 Halifaxes were lost. Many fires were seen but smoke prevented an accurate assessment of the bombing results. A brief report from Münster describes a 'sea of fire' in the southern part of the town which could not be entered for several hours and tells of water mains des...		10/30/2005	373
	RAF Welford on May 1944 Note the many CG-4A gliders on the airfield. Welford airfield (also called Welford Park) was built as one of the many Operational Training Unit airfields for the Southern Counties and was intended originally as a base for No 92 group Bomber Command. The original design called for a standard RAF 3 runway layout with the main runway of 2000ft aligned NW/SE to be a satellite airfiel...		06/01/2008	281
	RAF Twinwood Farm RAF Twinwood Farm is a former World War II airfield in England, located 4 miles N of Bedford. Twinwood Farm was where USAAF Major Glenn Miller aircraft took off on 15 December 1944 for Paris. His plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Twinwood_Farm		08/31/2009	30
	Destroyed Bridge at Orleans Bombed by the RAF May 1944.		02/11/2007	210
	RAF Molesworth The tri-base area constituting the 423d Air Base Squadron is composed of RAF Alconbury, RAF Molesworth and RAF Upwood, United Kingdom.		12/20/2005	352